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| Pearl of Great Price by Lindelea | 1 Review(s) |
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| Lady Forlong | Reviewed Chapter: Epilogue 2 on 5/26/2025 |
| Oh, what a joyous ending! I'm so glad you wrote the epilogue. This made sense, because they never found the dog's body -- just a bunch of bloody fur. I wonder what it was they buried? Gotta love Lop. The way he used his sheepdog skills to keep the little "flock" of young hobbits in line LOL Pippin needed it the most, I'm sure. Nice description of what the Shirrifs were really for, before "Sharkey" turned them into gestapo. And you just couldn't leave it at the proposal without the wedding! The perfect time for Lop to show up and create a disaster, but in true hobbit fashion they carried on. Daw the Shirriff should have accepted the invitation and stayed for the merrymaking. Thank you for writing and reposting this wonderful story. (Given the original publish date, I'm assuming it had gotten lost in the hack.) Author Reply: In the original story, they found scraps of slightly more than fur, but that got revised to scraps of fur. While originally putting the outline together, I read somewhere that wild pigs don't leave much behind. Added to that, I've watched dogs eat (raw) meat with bones, consuming bones and all, so it is conceivable that the hobbits who came on the scene concluded that the wild boars had torn the dog to pieces and devoured everything except for the clumps of hair they left behind. Thus, whoever built the cairn probably collected as much of the scattered hair as they could, then covered it with the cairn and placed the collar on top. (And seeing how Lop slipped out of his collar when returning to the farm, I could see him slipping his collar if a hog got hold of it in the fight.) One of our herding dogs had a narrow head and could slip her collar easily. We had to use a special "Gentle Leader" or "Haltie" with her leash or, alternatively, a harness. In my experience, herding dogs are happy to herd children as well as other animals. LOL! One of my adult kids told me recently about being herded to bed when the dog decided it was bedtime and he'd had enough of the children. Daw ought to have stayed! But he probably missed the announcement, being away on his rounds, or the date slipped his mind, and he really wasn't dressed in his best. And then to see what happened to Pearl when he didn't control Lop! Lastly, I'm so glad you enjoyed the story! Actually, from the posting dates, the story was deleted and restored in 2006, a couple years after the last chapter (before the epilogue) was posted. SoA admin have been defending the site from hackers for a long time, bless them with many blessings. Thanks so much for your lovely comments! I greatly appreciate your taking the time to share your thoughts and impressions. | |